In the May issue of the New Mexico Magazine (p. 60), Latin teacher, Dr. John Roth appears (along with others) with actor Willem Dafoe.  Dr. Roth was an extra in the upcoming Disney film, Odd Stuart.

Chris Baca, a local civil engineer and parent of Kalin '14 and Kolten '18, visited Clara Roybal's Algebra II class and showed students how he applies math every day in his work as a civil engineer.

Engineering the Future

Thomas Beecham, a senior technical staff member of Nanomaterial Sciences at Sandia National Laboratories, spoke to the upper school students at morning meeting on May 16th. Mr. Beecham explained the different fields of engineeri...Read More

We were fortunate to have Karen Coburn, author of Letting Go: A Parent's Guide to Understanding the College Years, on our campus April 25 from Washington University in St. Louis. Ms. Coburn shared her research and led a discussion on student deve...Read More

The Spanish V classes, taught by Señor Eduardo Aleixandre, recently studied Antoni Gaudi, the internationally known Spanish-Catalan architect (1852-1926).

Mr Evan Vincent, gave an informative presentation to the classes in which they learned mu...Read More

On April 22nd, Earth Day, we were pleased to host a reception thanking Verne Huser for the generous contribution of his collection of conservation and environmentally themed books to the Gerald and Betty Ford Library.  This collection of more th...Read More

While floating was the objective, not everyone was confident their man-made boat would make it around the West Mesa pool.

On Friday, April 27th, Bosque junior and senior physics students took a leap of faith as they left the security of the poolside a...Read More

The Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program (BEMP) hosted their K-6th grade Student Congress at Bosque School on Friday, April 27th from 10:00 a.m.- 2:00 p.m. 

The Student Congress, an annual end of the year celebration, brings students from up...Read More

The 8th grade drama class presented The Shakespearean Journey on May 5th in Sanchez Park.  The year started off with a fun introduction to Shakespeare's language - the students created modern scenes using iambic pentameter. The process culmi...Read More

The 3D art class students created this featured piece called “String Theory.”  This artwork was integrated into the landscape of the Bosque quad.  The students involved in this project are all sophomores: Marissa '14, Micah ...Read More

Wendy Amai, a robotics engineer with the Robotic and Security Systems at Sandia National Laboratories, spoke to students in Ms. Roybal’s Algebra I & II classes on April 27th. 

Ms. Amai, a senior member of Sandia National Labs team, has ...Read More

The annual golf tournament fundraiser supporting the need-based financial aid program through Bosque’s Annual Fund was a complete success. The tournament netted $60,000 for financial aid with 58 sponsors, 144 golfers, a dozen volunteers, and be...Read More

Lynn Trojahn, who was the advancement director at Bosque School from 1999-2004, an alumni parent, and now the Vice President of Advancement for Accion New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona, spoke to Heather O’Shea’s economics class on macro a...Read More

The Advanced English Seminar, a creative writing elective for seniors and juniors, has hosted two visiting poets this month. Joe West and Sage Harrington (pictured above), two New Mexico singer/songwriters, each visited the class to give a craft talk...Read More

Keene State College recently published an article on alumni who have made a large impact in their communities in coaching and athletics. Coach Weber was honored in this article that mentions the soccer field at Bosque named for him, The Klaus Weber C...Read More

Hakim Bellamy was named Albuquerque's 1st Poet Laureate at the Albuquerque Main Library on Saturday, April 14th by Mayor Richard Berry.

The Albuquerque Poet Laureate Program (APLP) celebrates the diversity of poetry in Albuquerque by offering a re...Read More

Book Fair

All pre-ordered books can be picked up at the Book Fair on Thursday, May 3rd from 2:30 p.m.- 7:00 p.m.

In addition, students, families and friends can peruse the ...Read More

Bosque admission acceptance letters went out and the Balloon Drop took place March 31st. Over 30 volunteers hit the streets of Albuquerque and surrounding communities to deliver balloons and a special treat to welcome the incoming class of 2019, as w...Read More

The Academy of American Poets launched the first National Poetry Month in 1996 and every April since has been filled with special events focused on poetry in American life. 

While Bosque students are exposed to poetry and literature on a daily ba...Read More

Bosque Students Enjoy the Snowy Spring Day

April 3, 2012

Catch the BEMP Education Director, Kimi Scheerer, in a recent eChieftain.com article. See the story based on Kimi’s March 17th

Sevilleta Jackrabbit outreach event here!

In March, Bosque School’s Medical Reserve Corps program received a visit from Ivan Lawitt, alumnus from the class of 2009. 

Following his passion of volunteering with the ski patrol and local firehouses, he had the ambitious vision, wh...Read More

Writers’ Café 2012 will be held on

Wednesday, April 4th and Thursday, April 5th.  

Eighth grade sections 1, 3, and half of 5 will perform on Wednesday evening; sections 2, 4, and half of 5 will take the spotlight on Thursday. 

Performances will begin ...Read More

Congratulations to Dan Otter, seventh grade Bosque School Social Studies teacher, who was recently featured in a NY Times article. Dan co-founded a website, http://www.403bwise.com/, that provides advice on 403b plans. Read more here....http://www.ny...Read More

The Adolescent Mental Health Initiative & Parent Speaker Series is a collaborative project allowing independent schools to work together as a community to educate parents and colleagues about various topical concerns that might impact learning, safet...Read More

The Bosque girls lacrosse team was invited to participate in the filming of an episode of "In Plain Sight,"

which is produced in New Mexico.

The girls, along with Rio Rancho High School’s lacrosse team, spent the day on set acting and then studying in...Read More

TOSS is a student-led program that allows Bosque upper school students to tutor middle school students in organizational skills.  We work one-on-one with middle school students to help them learn how to stay organized and record their assignments acc...Read More

Coach Greg Brown, girls basketball coach at Bosque School, was featured in an Albuquerque Journal article on February 11, 2012.

We are pleased to announce the newest member of the Bosque athletic staff, Varsity Track coach, Daniel Sanchez. Dan has experience developing strong, competitive programs and has a variety of coaching experience. Most recently, Dan coached both varsi...Read More

Dan Shaw, upper school science teacher and co-director of the Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program (BEMP) was featured in a recent Santa Fe Reporter article, "No Page Unturned, Five Essential Books for Understanding New Mexico.” Dan Shaw’s Eco-Trackin...Read More

Youth Service Rally / School Partnership

Monday, February 13th at 6:00 p.m.

Bosque School students have been invited to join several other local schools participating in a Youth Service Rally at Albuquerque Academy, on February 13th at 6:00 p.m.

The ral...Read More

On February 2nd and 3rd, 14 upper school students attended the University of Chicago Model UN Conference.

Model United Nations, University of Chicago (MUNUC) is a four day conference providing students in grades 9-12 the opportunity to participate in ...Read More

Get first dibs on your favorite summer program course by signing up NOW! Class sizes are limited for most offerings and will sell out quickly.  All registration will be handled online this year. Visit Bosque Summer to reserve your summer of fun, lear...Read More

In October of 2009, Patrick Dougherty came to Bosque School with a vision of kachina masks that were brought to life in a temporary land art project here on campus. Many of you remember to frenzy of student artists working hand in hand with the commu...Read More

Bosque has appointed Sheri Mahoney, the upper school biology teacher, to the spring counseling internship for the student counseling center.  Ms. Mahoney is in her last semester of completing a master’s degree in counselor education from the Universi...Read More

Doug Key, Head of the Upper School, discussed New Mexico statehood to the middle and upper school students.  While working on his dissertation in American history, Doug researched and wrote about New Mexico statehood, including the state’s Constituti...Read More

Seventh grade English teacher, Barb Lazar, serves on the Teacher Advisory Board, a curriculum development group for the National Energy Education Development project.  This advisory board supports and provides multi-sided energy-related curriculum, m...Read More

Bosque School announces the recent promotion of Jan Garrett from the Interim Director of Admission to the Director of Admission position. Jan taught in the Albuquerque Public Schools for 28 years. In addition to her classroom experience, she worked i...Read More

Meet Bosque’s new Director of Advancement, Cezanne “Zizi” Fritz. Zizi brings extensive experience in fundraising, board development, strategic planning, and financial operations to Bosque. She joins Bosque from her most recent leadership role as the ...Read More

Three Bosque students, Santos ‘18, Alyssa ‘18, and Mia ‘18 along with BEMP Director Dan Shaw and BEMP educator Kim Fike, led a tour of the Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program (BEMP) for the Bosque School Board of Trustees on November 17^th.  The trust...Read More

Breaking Bad actor, RJ MItte, spoke to middle school students about the importance of anti-bullying on Friday, November 18th. Mitte actively works with several important equal rights organizations whose intent is to raise awareness in the area of equ...Read More

Bosque middle school students will participate in awareness building on the topic of Anti-Bullying during the week of November 14-18^th. The week will consist of several activities devising positive statements and pledging to stand up and speak out.

Eric Orell will lead the boys varsity basketball team

beginning with their first season practice on Monday, October 31st. Coach Orell

holds a BS in Physical Education and a minor in Health Education from Northern

Arizona University. He also played colle...Read More

Bosque School announces the hire of a new athletic director, Bruce Stell. Stell will oversee athletics and physical education at Bosque School. Stell received his B.S. in Education, Secondary Math, and all levels of Physical Education from Lubbock Ch...Read More

Greg Brown is a 1990 graduate of Albuquerque High School where he led Albuquerque High to a state basketball title and received "Player of the Year" honors. He spent two years playing basketball at New Mexico Junior College where his team amassed mor...Read More

Tim O’Brien is a land use attorney in Albuquerque and is working with Bosque School to help us with the land use laws regarding the development west of our campus. Seventh grade social studies teacher, Dan Otter, has integrated this topic into this y...Read More

This year's sophomores had no idea when they read Slaughterhouse Five during the summer that they'd have the chance to speak with Kurt Vonnegut's son Mark. The younger Vonnegut is a celebrated memoirist, visual artist and Harvard-educated pediatricia...Read More

Bosque School will host the Aldo Leopold Foundation's Leopold Education Program National Conference on July 28-30. The conference will explore the history of Leopold in the southwest and learn how he developed his concept of a land ethic.

I wanted to share with the school community the announcement we made this morning at upper school morning meeting.  As some of you may know, David Bair has been selected as one of seven Golden Apple teachers for 2011.  This is an incredible honor and...Read More

Bosque School students welcomed the new Head of School, Billy Handmaker, on Friday, November 12, 2010. Mr. Handmaker will join Bosque permanently on July 1, 2011, from Crossroads College Preparatory School (CCPS) in St. Louis. After spending the past...Read More

Bosque’s own Mr. Daniel Shaw, has a new book just released by UNM Press; Eco-tracking; On the Trail of Habitat Change. This beautifully written and photographed book on environmental awareness follows the experiences of several young people and their...Read More

The Bosque School MRC is a group of medically trained students who render aide to whomever may have a medical emergency on our campus. Our students serve all around Albuquerque as well; providing emergency medical care at community events, as well as...Read More

“Soar to Greater Heights: Shaping the Future Through Education”

A Joint Conference of the New Mexico Science Teachers Association, the New Mexico Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and the Environmental Education Association of New Mexico.   New Mex...Read More

Our beloved Klaus Weber has been selected as an inductee into the New Mexico Ski Hall of Fame.  His long-term contribution to the development and promotion of the sport of snow skiing in New Mexico qualified him as a New Mexico Ski Hall of Fame membe...Read More

A huge thank you from the Bosque Booster Club (BBC) to the 25 amazing Bosque parents and faculty that volunteered their time to drive buses on June 26^th and 27^th at the Lavender Festival.  Together, they raised $2,000 for student activities.  To all ...Read More

Jessie Larson, Middle School Spanish Teacher, has won a scholarship for study in South America during the summer of 2010 from Southwest Conference on Language Teaching (SWCOLT), a nine-state foreign language organization in the southwestern United St...Read More

Bosque School’s Athletic Director Klaus Weber, came in 2nd in his age group in the 2010 Mt. Taylor Quadrathlon on February 13th. The Quad is a 42 mile race to the top and back of the highest peak in Northwest New Mexico, 11,301 foot high Mt. Taylor i...Read More

Katie Visco has run 3,132 miles across America, and is now on a speaking tour from California to Maine. She stopped at Bosque School to speak with our students and help inspire them to follow their passions. Says Katie, “Pave Your Lane inspires the p...Read More

Six Bosque students attended the 2010 Joint Annual Meeting of the Arizona and New Mexico Chapters of The Wildlife Society and the Arizona/New Mexico Chapter of the American Fisheries Society held in Flagstaff, Arizona, February 4-6, 2010. Krystal, Sa...Read More

Dan Shaw has received both the New Mexico Chapter of the Wildlife Society 2010 Wildlife Professional of the Year Award AND the New Mexico Track and Cross County Coaches Association New Mexico 2009 A-AAA Girls Cross Country Coach of the Year! Congratu...Read More

The American Institute of Architects – AIA Albuquerque, bestowed a 2009 Architectural Design Award – Merit Award - to Bosque School for the New Schoolhouse Building – General Design, Interiors. December 13, 2009

On December 8, 2009, Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea, visited the Bosque School campus to speak to the entire student body, discuss his experiences and his newest book, Stones into Schools:  Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afgha...Read More

Bosque School partnered with Visible Light Solar to retrofit the existing outdoor lighting into solar powered lights.  This move will save the school money and reinforce the school’s commitment to utilizing renewable energy sources. http://www.visibl...Read More

Juaquin Moya, Director of College Guidance at Bosque School is a recipient of the 2009 Yale Educator Award. The Yale Educator Recognition Program recognizes outstanding educators from around the world who have supported and inspired their students to...Read More

The 2009 Bosque School girls cross country team won the A-AA New Mexico State Championship. This is the first state championship for a Bosque School cross country team. Paced by captain, Madeleine ('10) the Bosque bobcats placed three finishers on th...Read More

Bosque School became back-to-back 1A-3A boys soccer state champions Saturday after beating Sandia Prep 3-1 at the APS Soccer Complex.  In the 2008 State Championship, Bosque also went up against Sandia Prep and won state.  Coach Klaus Weber dedicates...Read More

The public is invited to view the Patrick Dougherty Land Art project at Bosque School and hear his address to the community:

Campus Visiting Hours
M-F Oct 5th – 23rd 9-2
Special Weekend Hours October 10th and 11th 8-5
Artist Talk at Bosque School...Read More

Third, fourth and fifth grade APS students celebrate 2008-2009 BEMP Congress with Bosque School sixth graders in Sanchez Park at Bosque School.  BEMP (Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program) Congress is students celebrating the environment, our ecosyste...Read More

Bosque Junior Civitan students and faculty participate in the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk on Sunday, April 26, 2009, held here in Albuquerque.  Making Strides Against Breast Cancer is a noncompetitive walk to help fight breast cancer, a...Read More

The new Upper School, due to be complete in August 2009, is well underway!  The building was designed by Rohde, May, Keller, McNamara Architects, and the contractor is Reid & Associates.

The Bosque School Cantate performed at the River of Lights festival at the Albuquerque Biopark.

Dan Shaw, science teacher for 14 years at Bosque School, has been awarded the 2008 New Mexico Riparian Council Research Award for his continued leadership in promoting science and research to tomorrows’ leaders at the Bosque School and his work with...Read More

Albuquerque – John Badal, Lucia Deichmann, Sayre Townsend Gerhart, Jim Klabunde and Clayton Small have recently been appointed to Bosque School’s Board of Trustees.

John Badal is the CEO and Owner of Southwest Therapies (SWT), and Mobile Medical Mar...Read More

Bosque School’s BEMP Education Coordinator, Kimi Scheerer has been elected President for the Environmental Education Association of New Mexico (EEANM).  This year, the group is joining forces with the New Mexico Council for the Teachers of Mathematic...Read More

Mrs. Lazar’s 7^th grade English classes joined thousands of students around the country and around the world by creating “Pinwheels for Peace” in celebration of International Peace Day on September 21.  After exploring the use of powerful words and im...Read More

“Like the beautiful Cottonwood trees in the bosque, which gives our school its name, this building is also rooted to one place, and held firm in the same soil, into which we now dig.” Bosque School parent and trustee, Sayre Gerhart

Thursday, Septem...Read More

On Thursday, April 24^th, Bosque School hosted the Joint Watershed Watch/BEMP Student Congress with about 60 visiting students from:   Pecos High School, Cimarron High School, Cochiti Middle School, APS School on Wheels, United World College, East Mou...Read More

Congratulations to 109 Texas and New Mexico teachers who will receive grants totaling $250,000 in 2007 for innovative teaching ideas designed to inspire and excite. Three Bosque School teachers have received grants for the 07-08 school year. Congratu...Read More